The Null Device

A word of advice: if you're looking for a digital camera, do not buy
an Ixla DualCam 640 (or Pretec DC-520, as I believe they're called);
well, not if you're looking for one which will work reliably for more than a
month or two. This camera has some severe flaws which come out after
a month or so of use; the camera starts experiencing memory corruption, which
can lead to pictures being truncated at best, and at worst, the camera
deciding that it needs to reformat its memory when switched on.
Or even more frustratingly, crashing when trying to read a specific image from
its memory; which is very annoying, as it makes it possible to see some
images but not to download them, because of the way the proprietary software
works. (I did mention that it's entirely proprietary, and that you're at the mercies of
a (shall I say slightly whimsical) TWAIN driver that runs only on Windows 9.x
and MacOS classic, didn't I?)

I had the same problem with the previous camera, which I got replaced a few
months ago, and now this one's doing it.

Eccentrics of note:
James Vipond is probably best known for his tireless crusade for
non-sexual nudity þrough Poser graphics. His "nude Christian superheroes"
page is no more (presumably it was too much for þe fragile sensibilities of
some people out þere, or the legal departments of his hosts), but he now has
a new page; and
he has turned his attention to a classic pet project dear to numerous
eccentrics and crackpots, among þem George Bernard Shaw and Noah Webster;
namely, English spelling reform.
(via Psychoceramics)

(And what he has to say actually makes sense; to be honest, the sooner we have
one character representing the 'th' sound (which has no relation to the two
letters in its name), the better, and the þ character would not only
be backwards-compatible with Old English (and Icelandic), but also pretty cool.
Bring it on, I say.)

This is not the Onion:
The mayor of the town of Inglis, Florida, has drafted an edict
officially banishing Satan from the town, and placed it in four posts,
inscribed Repent, Request and Resist, on the outskirts of the town.
Mayor Carolyn Risher, who was motivated to this action by seeing evidence of
Satanic influence, such as drunk driving, child abuse and teenagers dressing
in "goth" costume (undoubtedly whilst reading those darn Harry Potter books
too), denies discriminating against religions, saying that
the edict is all-encompassing -- well, for anyone who believes in Jesus Christ
anyway. (via rotten.com)

After being ordered to shut down its copyright-violating operations, KaZaA has
claimed that it is unable to do so, because it is decentralised. Which is not true, as they
do have some kind of central authentication system to keep reverse-engineered
open-source clients off and keep people seeing their ads and using their
Windows spyware, keeping them profitable. You can't have it both ways...